ABOUT

Jenny Ania Harper

Breathwork facilitator, energy healer, and founder of the LIATI Institute

Hello. I’m Jenny Ania

I’m originally from Perth, Western Australia — now rooted in the mountains of Colorado, with my husband, a garden, and a deep love of wild places and open water.

My journey into this field did not begin with ease or “love and light,” but through rupture and resilience. I was an athlete, and sport gave me somewhere to put everything — a body trained to perform rather than to feel, always in motion, always achieving. It kept the deeper questions at bay for a long time. For many years, I lived at a distance from myself.

n 1997, a devastating sports injury left me with a broken spine and a long road of recovery ahead. And when the sport stopped, so did the thing that had kept me from feeling anything at all. Suddenly I had no way to manage the emotional landscape underneath — the complex family trauma I had never faced, the feelings I had spent so much effort outrunning. Like so many women, I reached for the one thing that gave me a sense of control: figure addiction and food. Years of anorexia and emotional eating followed, punishing a body I couldn’t yet inhabit. In time, it carried me into a dark night of the soul.

And then, at that very dark bottom, something I can only call grace appeared from within. A presence I couldn't explain met me in my own body — and moved through it with such tenderness, showing me each place I had stopped loving myself, and staying until I could gather those pieces back. That moment was where my work truly began...

What followed was a slow homecoming to my own body. Through immersion in Wiccan earth traditions and the sacred feminine, I learned to love my form instead of fighting it. I dove deep into daily meditation, energy medicine, depth psychology, feminine essence work, and after-death studies, always seeking the meeting point where science, spirit, and myth converge. And as my body became my friend once again, something strange began to happen: the myths I had been reading awoke within my living structure — not as stories on a page, but as a living intelligence rising through my own subconscious, tutoring me, showing me precisely which patterns to release and which to reclaim. The archetypes weren’t literature. They were a map, and they were rearranging my life from the inside.

Then, in 1999, I discovered freediving — and breathwork entered my life. Breath by breath, I pieced myself back together — not only physically, but at the level of soul and purpose. When I moved back to the United States, I gave that convergence a rigorous foundation through formal study.

A teacher once told me your path is always ninety degrees away from your goal. In my own life, nothing has ever proven more true.

Where science and intuition meet

Over the years I’ve immersed myself in the study of breath, body, energy, and soul — always seeking the place where science, spirit, and myth converge. I am still a lifelong student.

Training & Certifications

  • Advanced study in psychology & comparative religion

  • Massage therapy & Cranio-sacral therapy

  • Biodynamic Breathwork® Trauma Release

  • Oxygen Advantage® Breathwork

  • Reiki Mastery & Meridian field work

  • Holistic nutrition counseling

  • Hypnotherapy — Past Life & Between Life regression

Immersions & Lineage

  • The Findhorn Foundation

  • Initiation into living sacred-feminine lineage

  • After-death & between-life studies

  • Somatic & nervous-system therapies

  • Indigenous & shamanic traditions

My work draws on the wisdom of C.G. Jung, Wilhelm Reich, Barbara Brennan, and Joseph Campbell — a living blend of scientific precision and intuitive knowing.

“You need to be content with small steps. That’s all life is. Small steps you take everyday so when you look down the road, you see how much distance you have covered. Distance is wisdom, it is beauty, it is owning the bruises, scars, and triumphs like sacred warpaint. Respect your precious journey, it is who you are beyond the illusion of time.”

- JAH

WHO I’M HERE FOR

I work mostly with women — but the truth beneath my work is that each of us carries both a feminine and a masculine within. It is the feminine in all of us, of every gender, that I am really here to tend: the part that feels, receives, intuits, and remembers. Wherever she lives, she is welcome here.

I work with the person who the world calls a superwoman — capable, accomplished, the one everyone leans on. But underneath the competence is often a girl who learned, very early, to fawn: to read the room, to meet everyone else’s needs, to earn her place by being useful. She became indispensable to everyone but herself.

And I work with the person who simply craves more aliveness — who senses there is more waiting for her than the life she’s currently living. Who wants to reclaim her erotic self, to let her heart lead instead of her fear, to end the chronic worry and anxiety that hum beneath her days, and to return to something sacred in a world that keeps her endlessly, profanely busy.

Often she is deeply empathic — a healer herself, a sensitive, the one who feels everything — and she has reached the edge of what she can do alone. She isn’t looking to start from zero; she is fine-tuning: refining her energy, raising her frequency, sharpening her gifts, and searching for the deeper teaching that will take her further than she’s been able to go on her own.

The roles that once kept her safe — the achiever, the caretaker, the one who never needs anything — have become the very things standing between her and her own aliveness. My work is helping her take them off, and remove that which is standing between her and her authentic aliveness.

And yes, this is often what’s called trauma work — and trauma is not a dirty word, nor does it require some terrible story to qualify. It is simply the state of being disconnected: from the body, from feeling, from the self.

Much of that homecoming, then, is the reclaiming of the parts that carry our aliveness. The divine child — not the wounded one we tend along the way, but the innocent, wonder-filled lifeforce beneath it — the erotic self, the wild instinct, the intuitive knowing. These are not indulgences. They are the birthright we were quietly taught to set down, and reclaiming them is how the color returns to a life.

I’m devoted to awakening the sacred feminine, tending the roots of ancestral wisdom, and remembering the embodied knowing that travels with us across the soul’s vast experience. I’ll walk beside you as you step into conscious self-leadership, clarity, and soul-aligned freedom.

This is the somatic path home — to your lifeforce, your essence, the breath of who you truly are.

Your radiant wholeness isn’t something to earn. It’s your birthright.

Cheers,
Jenny Ania

FOR THE RECORD

Available for retreats, workshops, festivals, and speaking — and always glad to co-create with aligned organizations, studios, and fellow facilitators. As an experienced breathwork facilitator and ceremony leader, I can hold a room of a few or a few hundred. For collaborations, events, or press, reach out anytime.

Jenny Ania Harper is a breathwork facilitator, energy healer, and founder of the LIATI Institute, an ICAHP-accredited holistic training school and member of the International Breathwork Foundation. Originally from Perth, Western Australia, she holds advanced training in psychology and comparative religion, with certifications in Biodynamic Breathwork® Trauma Release, Oxygen Advantage® breathwork, Reiki Mastery, meridian field work, holistic nutrition, and regression hypnotherapy. Her work integrates neuroscience, somatic therapy, and depth psychology with the archetypal traditions of Jung, Reich, Brennan, and Campbell. She is the creator of Mythos Somatic Healing™ and lives in the mountains of Colorado.